Slaves of Christ

Posted by Troy Eckhardt on March 25, 2013 at 3:08 am

From where does morality come? Whose morality should influence social behavior and public policy?

When a friend posted this image on Facebook, I thought a bit about what the Bible has to say about slavery. It mentions differences between Hebrew and heathen slave treatment in the Old Testament. It deals with selling daughters and what their new masters should do with them if they are not “pleasing,” or how the slave girls’ new husbands should regard them if they are re-gifted by their masters to their sons to wed. Jesus Himself tells slaves to obey their masters. Many of the heroes of the Bible were slaves. Years of Jubilee were set up to insure that some types of slave were able to go free. Read the rest of the article »